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Read through our annual financial and activity reports, and find out about where our funds come from and how they are spent.

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Read the policies, reports, and plans on how we address issues like racism and reduce our carbon footprint, ensuring our actions align with the highest ethical standards.

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What we do

Médecins Sans Frontières brings medical humanitarian assistance to victims of conflict, natural disasters, epidemics or healthcare exclusion.

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Where we work

In more than 70 countries, Médecins Sans Frontières provides medical humanitarian assistance to save lives and ease the suffering of people in crisis situations.

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MSF Access

MSF Access pushes for access to, and the development of, life-saving and life-prolonging medicines, diagnostic tests and vaccines for people in our programmes and beyond.

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CRASH

Based in Paris, CRASH conducts and directs studies and analysis of MSF actions. They participate in internal training sessions and assessment missions in the field.

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UREPH

Based in Geneva, UREPH (or Research Unit) aims to improve the way MSF projects are implemented in the field and to participate in critical thinking on humanitarian and medical action.

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ARHP

Based in Barcelona, ARHP documents and reflects on the operational challenges and dilemmas faced by the MSF field teams.

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MSF Analysis

Based in Brussels, MSF Analysis intends to stimulate reflection and debate on humanitarian topics organised around the themes of migration, refugees, aid access, health policy and the environment in which aid operates.

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MSF Supply

This logistical and supply centre in Brussels provides storage of and delivers medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.

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MSF Logistique

This supply and logistics centre in Bordeaux, France, provides warehousing and delivery of medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.

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Amsterdam Procurement Unit

This logistical centre in Amsterdam purchases, tests, and stores equipment including vehicles, communications material, power supplies, water-processing facilities and nutritional supplements.

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Brazilian Medical Unit

BRAMU specialises in neglected tropical diseases, such as dengue and Chagas, and other infectious diseases. This medical unit is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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MSF Medical Guidelines

Our medical guidelines are based on scientific data collected from MSF’s experiences, the World Health Organization (WHO), other renowned international medical institutions, and medical and scientific journals.

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Epicentre

Providing epidemiological expertise to underpin our operations, conducting research and training to support our goal of providing medical aid in areas where people are affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or excluded from health care.

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Evaluation Units

Evaluation Units have been established in Vienna, Stockholm, and Paris, assessing the potential and limitations of medical humanitarian action, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of our medical humanitarian work.

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LGBTQI+ Inclusion in Health Settings

MSF works with LGBTQI+ populations in many settings over the last 25-30 years. LGBTQI+ people face healthcare disparities with limited access to care and higher disease rates than the general population.

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LUXOR

The Luxembourg Operational Research (LuxOR) unit coordinates field research projects and operational research training, and provides support for documentation activities and routine data collection.

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MSF Academy for Healthcare

To upskill and provide training to locally-hired MSF staff in several countries, MSF has created the MSF Academy for Healthcare.

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Humanitarian Law

This Guide explains the terms, concepts, and rules of humanitarian law in accessible and reader-friendly alphabetical entries.

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MSF Paediatric Days

The MSF Paediatric Days is an event for paediatric field staff, policy makers and academia to exchange ideas, align efforts, inspire and share frontline research to advance urgent paediatric issues of direct concern for the humanitarian field.

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MSF Foundation

The MSF Foundation aims to create a fertile arena for logistics and medical knowledge-sharing to meet the needs of MSF and the humanitarian sector as a whole.

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DNDi

A collaborative, patients’ needs-driven, non-profit drug research and development organisation that is developing new treatments for neglected diseases, founded in 2003 by seven organisations from around the world.

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MSF Science Portal

Our digital portal dedicated to sharing the latest medical evidence from our humanitarian activities around the globe.

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Noma

Noma is a preventable and treatable neglected disease, but 90 per cent of people will die within the first two weeks of infection if they do not receive treatment.

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TIC

The TIC is aiming to change how MSF works to better meet the evolving needs of our patients.

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Telemedicine

MSF's telemedicine hub aims to overcome geographic barriers for equitable, accessible, and quality patient care.

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Sweden Innovation Unit

Launched in 2012, the MSF Sweden Innovation Unit deploys a human-centered approach for promoting a culture of innovation within MSF.

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Geo MSF

The GeoMSF platform is a dynamic one-stop-shop website for all of MSF's GIS related services and products. Access maps and applications through the catalogue, request geographical support, or produce a map on GeoMSF.

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Ministry of Health doctor Fartun Sa’id and MSF’s Project Meical Referent Abdirazak during their medical rounds for the patients in Fistula Unit ward, at MSF supported Bay Regional Hospital in Baidoa, Somalia.
Somalia

Fistula care provides healing for women in Baidoa, Somalia

In Baidoa, Somalia, an MSF team has set up a new unit to treat obstetric fistula in Bay Regional hospital, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. Project Update - 4 Nov 2025
 
An MSF vehicle is parked outside Al Rantisi Hospital in Gaza City, amidst the rubble and destruction in the area. The photo, taken from the hospital’s entrance, looks out onto the street.
Gaza-Israel war

MSF has resumed activities in Gaza City

Since 15 October, we have partially resumed our activities in Gaza City, in the north of Gaza, Palestine. Project Update - 23 Oct 2025
 
Angelina Achol, an MSF counsellor educator, leads a mental health psychoeducation session with women in the waiting area of Malakal Teaching Hospital
South Sudan

Comprehensive treatment for serious mental health conditions is possible in South Sudan

In Malakal, South Sudan, our team of mental health professionals are treating people with serious mental health conditions, as well as breaking the stigma associated with these conditions. Project Update - 20 Oct 2025
 
Three years after the 2022 Pretoria peace agreement ended hostilities in Ethiopia's Tigray region, over 760,000 people remain displaced, many in overcrowded camps with limited access to food, clean water, sanitation, and shelter, as communities grapple with the lasting impacts of violence and collapsed services. The psychological impact of the conflict exacerbated by the current living situation remains one of the most pressing but often overlooked consequences. As trauma caused by violence, loss, and displacement continues to affect thousands of people in the region, access to mental health care remains extremely limited leaving a lot of survivors to cope with the long-term effects of trauma alone. MSF currently provides mental health counseling at two locations in the region. Since 2023, Mental health care services have been offered at the Five Angels and Semaetat IDP Camp, and starting in 2024, counseling is also offered at the MSF facility within Maiani Hospital. These services include one-on-one counseling, psycho-education sessions with health promotion teams, group therapy, and referrals to hospitals for psychiatric care, ensuring regular support for the community.
Ethiopia

Mental health care cannot wait in Tigray

Three years since the cessation of hostilities in Tigray, Ethiopia, people are living with the psychological impacts of trauma without widely available support. Project Update - 10 Oct 2025
 
Restrictive immigration policies such as Title 42 have serious consequences on the migrant population. An example of this is the current situation in Plaza de la República in Reynosa, north-eastern Mexico, where more than 2,000 people from the Northern Triangle of Central America are living in tents in open air, in deplorable conditions of habitat and security, after being expelled from the United States when they were seeking protection. MSF provides primary health and mental health services, as well as support in providing clean water for the population in the Plaza de la Republica.
Mexico

MSF concludes work in Reynosa and Matamoros after eight years of care for migrants

We have concluded our project for migrants in the cities of Reynosa and Matamoros, in Mexico, due to a decrease in people attempting to migrate north. Project Update - 7 Oct 2025
 
During their journey through the Darién, migrants must cross the Acandí and Tuquesa rivers.
Panama

MSF concludes activities for migrants in Panama

After almost four years in Panama, we have ended activities in the country following a decrease in migration flows. Project Update - 7 Oct 2025
 
24-year-old Zainab Kamara attending a medical consultation provided by MSF Clinical Officer, Dominic Pessima, at the MSF Supported drug-resistant tuberculosis ward in Makeni Regional Hospital, Bombali Districts, Sierra Leone. Zainab Kamara is from Makeni. She has been diagnosed with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and started her 18 months all oral treatment in May 2023. She has a history of previously interrupted treatment due to lack of family support and has now been placed on an individualized drug regimen to adequately address the type of resistance she is facing.
Sierra Leone

MSF concludes years of medical support in Tonkolili and Bombali districts

We have concluded our work in Tonkolili and Bombali, after years of providing care to newborns and mothers, as well as people with tuberculosis. Project Update - 6 Oct 2025
 
View of a displaced person’s camp housed in the premises of a former MSF hospital in Port-au-Prince.
Haiti

People and the health system are trapped in escalating violence in Haiti

Our teams in Haiti continue to treat victims and survivors of violence, while the health system struggles to cope with people's needs. Project Update - 3 Oct 2025
 
An MSF staff member walks through the grounds of the Kunduz trauma centre, 03 October, hours after it was badly damaged from sustained bombing on Saturday October 3.
Afghanistan

Kunduz 10 years on

On 3 October 2015, an airstrike destroyed our trauma hospital in Kunduz, killing our patients, friends, and colleagues. Today, we have a new trauma centre open in Kunduz. Project Update - 3 Oct 2025
 
People from the frontline areas arrive at the transit centre for IDPs in Dnipropetrovsk region (eastern Ukraine). They usually spend a few days here before moving further west. The Médecins Sans Frontières mobile clinic comes here twice a week. Our doctors and nurses examine patients. They often have chronic illnesses, and some of them arrive with injuries from the hostilities. Our health promoters and psychologists also work with patients to identify their needs and provide psychological support.
Ukraine

Displaced people struggle in eastern Ukraine’s overcrowded shelters

MSF teams are running mobile clinics for people who have been newly displaced by intensifying fighting in eastern Ukraine. Project Update - 2 Oct 2025
Four mothers posing in a corridor of the Hospital in Bili. All four of them are staying in the hospital with their child, that's suffering from a severe case of malaria. Since the beginning of the project in 2016, the pediatric ward already treated more than 4.000 cases of complicated/severe form of malaria.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence and impartiality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

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